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[[Image:Dyson_Eddington_Davidson_1919_A_Determination_of_the_Deflection_of_Light_by_the_Sun's_Gravitational_Field_inverted.jpg|thumb|258px|An inverted photograph from F. W. Dyson, A. S. Eddington, and C. Davidson, "A Determination of the Deflection of Light by the Sun's Gravitational Field, from Observations Made at the Total Eclipse of May 29, 1919", ''Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London'' (1920): 291-333, p 332.]]
 
[[Image:View_from_the_Window_at_Le_Gras,_Joseph_Nicéphore_Niépce.jpg|thumb|258px|''View from the Window at Le Gras'' is the oldest surviving camera photograph. Created by [[Nicéphore Niépce]] in 1826 or 1827 at Saint-Loup-de-Varennes, it shows parts of the buildings and surrounding countryside of his estate, Le Gras, seen from a high window, made using a camera obscura. It was the result of an 8-hour exposure.]]
 
[[Image:View_from_the_Window_at_Le_Gras,_Joseph_Nicéphore_Niépce.jpg|thumb|258px|''View from the Window at Le Gras'' is the oldest surviving camera photograph. Created by [[Nicéphore Niépce]] in 1826 or 1827 at Saint-Loup-de-Varennes, it shows parts of the buildings and surrounding countryside of his estate, Le Gras, seen from a high window, made using a camera obscura. It was the result of an 8-hour exposure.]]
 
[[Image:Cover_the_Pencil_of_Nature_1844.jpg|thumb|258px|Cover of ''The Pencil of Nature'' by [[William Henry Fox Talbot]], the first photographic book, with 24 calotypes, London, 1844,  [[Media:Talbot_H_Fox_The_Pencil_of_Nature.pdf|PDF]].]]
 
[[Image:Cover_the_Pencil_of_Nature_1844.jpg|thumb|258px|Cover of ''The Pencil of Nature'' by [[William Henry Fox Talbot]], the first photographic book, with 24 calotypes, London, 1844,  [[Media:Talbot_H_Fox_The_Pencil_of_Nature.pdf|PDF]].]]

Revision as of 10:43, 18 March 2015

An inverted photograph from F. W. Dyson, A. S. Eddington, and C. Davidson, "A Determination of the Deflection of Light by the Sun's Gravitational Field, from Observations Made at the Total Eclipse of May 29, 1919", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (1920): 291-333, p 332.
View from the Window at Le Gras is the oldest surviving camera photograph. Created by Nicéphore Niépce in 1826 or 1827 at Saint-Loup-de-Varennes, it shows parts of the buildings and surrounding countryside of his estate, Le Gras, seen from a high window, made using a camera obscura. It was the result of an 8-hour exposure.
Cover of The Pencil of Nature by William Henry Fox Talbot, the first photographic book, with 24 calotypes, London, 1844, PDF.
Portrait of Nahui Olin by Edward Weston, 1924.
The brothers Ianachia (1878–1954) and Milton Manachia (1882–1964) were pioneers of photography and cinema in the Balkans.

Pages

Selected literature

László Moholy-Nagy, Malerei, Fotografie, Film, 1925/27. Log.
Gyorgy Kepes, Language of Vision: Painting, Photography, Advertising-Design, 1944/1969, Log.

(in English unless noted)

Avant-garde
Historisation
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